Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We shouldn’t have done it … We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.

• Oleg Gazenko, researcher and Laika’s handler

My wife read the kids a short book on Laika the other day, and it slowly dawned on me as she read that neither the kids nor she knew Laika’s fate going in…

:(

The sympathy for Laika is understandable and very human. It is just.

However the instrumentation of her death is anti communist. Why did the Western world so much care for one dog when they did kill countless animals - including dogs - for commercial usage (and I don’t even mean animal agriculture!) with little and no scientific gain?

Anticommunism. The Canine Defense League (a name that was chosen for its continuity) was leveraging Laika progpagandistically and did quite a bit of Sinophobia during that time, too.

KINGDOM OF CONSCIENCE – Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

🎶And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time🎶

🎶Til touchdown brings me back around to find🎶

🎶 I’m not the dog you think I am at all🎶

🎶Oh no, not at all 🎶

🎶I’m a rocket dog, (a rocket dog)🎶

🎶Burning out my fuse out here alone🎶

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